• Buffy costar Mercedes McNab to pose for Playboy; socially-challenged fanboys to spring boners eternal.


• Sweet little cherub Mandy Moore is bringin' schlumpy back, and pulling it off.


• And lo, brash angel of God Kathy Griffin alit and sayeth unto Tori Spelling: "unto you a childe is borne!"


• Paris Hilton has been officially charged with drunk driving. Now, if only she were to be officially charged by the fashion police. Ooh! That's right! We went there! Uh-huh! Two snaps up, girlfriend!


• Aerosmith's Steven Tyler is one hep cat.


• Ashlee Simpson premiered as Roxie Hart in the London Cambridge Theatre's production of Chicago Monday night. And alas, there was no one with an oversized novelty hook, nor any clowns with comical janitor's brooms in sight.


• Lindsay Lohan's father brags about porking his daughter's Herbie stunt double. No punch line needed.


• A helpful compendium of celebrity nippage to clip, save, collect, and trade with friends.


• Tom and K-Hole are looking for a project they can star in together. Might we suggest adapting Ronnie Spector's biography, Be My Baby? Though Tom as a megalomaniacal, shrimpy Svengali with a predilection for shades holding his young and innocent wife captive in their own home might be a bit of a stretch. Har de har har.